YES! You heard it here first folks.
I just added a Select Balanced HTML/XML Tag macro to the Experimental bundle!
I've been trying different ways of making this work since I first started using TextMate back in, what like 2004 or something?
I've tried regex, I've tried Ruby, I've tried everything I could think of... But finally I've come up with something very simple.
The only real downside is that it's EXTREMELY slow. Like 1 second from running the macro until it's done. But that's WAY faster than using the mouse to manually select that same code, or trying to use the keyboard to manually select it.
This is frankly the #1 biggest missing feature of TextMate that directly impacts my life.
If this breaks anything, just remember that it's undoable. Command-Z is your friend. Please also report and and all problems to me with an example of the code that it chokes on.
If you only want to DOWNLOAD this macro alone, just visit this link and double-click the file. http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/Experimental.tmbundle/Macros...
—Thomas Aylott – subtleGradient—